Alan,

     I have had an MVS ADSM server in operation since about 1996.  I would
be glad to discuss the details offline if you would like.  Feel free to
e-mail me at       vhysock AT csc DOT com .  To give you a few details - we are 
an
OS/390 2.4 shop, using JES3.  ADSM runs on one of four LPAR's here.  Our
server has recently been upgraded to 3.1.2.14 (and yes, that fixtest for
the expiration problem does work well!).  We currently have 300+ clients -
HP-UX, AIX, NT, Netware, Solaris, Windows.  The one thing I will tell you
from my experience - getting 60 GB/hour throughput on a 100 Mbps FDDI is a
daydream.

                         Ginny

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 planning an ADSM implementation with the ADSM server residing on MVS,
however need to gain some understanding of MVS usage in order to plan and
provision appropriate capacity.
Initial implementation will be with 11 ADSM clients, with a maximum
required
throughput of 60GB per hour. Network infrastructure is being designed, but
assume will most likely be FDDI (100Mbps).
Would like to know if there are any implementations of ADSM using MVS as
the
server. If so, would like to understand details of ADSM implementation (#
of
servers, clients, network infrastructure etc), what is the volume of data
being backed up (in worst hour), MVS resources (MIPS, memory, disk pools)
being used. Would also be helpful if details of MVS environment were
provided, such as operating system version and release, hardware model etc.
Alan Vandersee
Midrange Software Planning - Technology Planning & Management
Level 25, 201 Elizabeth St, SYDNEY
Ph: (02) 9396 8496              Fax: (02) 9396 8486